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Here we see an American boy living in Berlin, probably during the 1920s. It is a postcard back photograph, but must have been ebclosed in a letter as their is no address or postmark. It was written to friends in America. The card reads, "Dear Daniel & Louise, Do you remember me?> I am on the other side. I am in the Tier garden which is very pretty. (At the zoo!). Come over to Germany soon. Loce from Bobby Shafley." Unfortunately we are not sure about the writing. Shafley wiuld seem like a more common name, but we don't see the 'y'.
While it is written as if Bobby wrote it, we suspect mother actually did the writing. Bobby is wearing a sailor cap with an "America" cap tally, a cardigan sweater, white knee pants, black long stockings, and low-cut shoes. He looks to be about 8-9 years old. We do not know why Bobby was in Germany. It sounds like the family is living there. The family name sounds German, but 'Bobby' and the perfect English suggests that they are throughly Americanized. Perhaps they were a diplomatic family, but a lot of American companies did business in Germany.
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